Paper-holding device.



D. H. HSHERl PAPER HOLDNG DEVICE.

APPLmATrloN FILED Nov'.14.1917.

m; meme@ my. 5,1918.

S14/vento@ wmf/f@ DAVID H. FISHER, or ALBANY, NEW YORK.

PAPIER-HOLDING DEVICE,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, idil.

Application led November 14, 1917. Serial No. 202,086.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAvm H. FISHER, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Holding Devices, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to paper holding devices and is primarily intended for use in connection with the transportation of papers such as bills or documents which are bundled and when it is desired to remove one of more papers from the bundle of papers without disturbing the other papers, as for instance, when a bill collector has a plurality of bills, he may place them in the holder where they will be held frictionally although yieldably so that a pull on any one paper will dislodge it without disturbing the other bills in the bundle; likewise paper money may be held and removed one at a time or collectively, as the case may be.

A further object of this invention is to provide a bill holder which can be opened for the application of the papers and then closed so as to clamp the papers in place and frictionally retain them, said invention being comparatively inexpensive to manufacture, as well as eicient and satisfactory in use.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming 7wart of this specification, wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a View in perspective of the device;

Fig. 2 illustrates an inverted sectional View; and

Fig. 3 illustrates a longitudinal sectional View on a line corresponding with the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In these drawings I have shown a case or holder as comprising a member 5 with a flanged side 6 to which the member 7 is hinged and the member 5 has a flange 8 to engage a flange 9 on the member 7 and the flanges 9 and 8 are locked together by a suitable latch 10 on the flange 9 engaging the flange S, and the latch 10 is held by a spring 1l so that it may be pushed by pressure on the lug 12 of the latch to release it for opening the holder.

The member 5 has a spring 16 secured to it in any appropriate way, and/ as one embodiment of the invention, I show the member 5 as having guides 14 and 15 through which the ends of the springs project and n which they are movable as the spring moves when manipulated.

Bills or papers may be placed on the member 7, and the member 5 may be hinged to overlie the papers so that they will be pressed firmly but yieldably when the mem bers 5 and 7 are closed, and for convenience of description, the member 5 may be said to be the cover and the member 7 the bottom of the holder.

As heretofore stated, it will be obvious that in using the device, any one paper may be removed without disturbing the others, since the pressure of the spring is to be regarded as suilicient to retain the papers yagainst accidental displacement but to allow removal of one or more of them upon pull being exerted on them.

In a paper holder, a member having a side flange, a member hinged to the edge of said flange, means for latching the members together, spring guides carried by one of the members in which the spring is movable and adapted to coact with the other member.

DAVID H. FISHER.

@epica of this patent :may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatente,

Washington, D. C. 

